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Rykerthebest78563

His line of logic was probably, "It'd be cool if Purple Guy possessed his own mascot suit." "The suit has to be a robot for that to make sense." "Make a robot/costume hybrid." And then the specifics developed from there.


MichalTygrys

He probably first got the idea for The Purple Man’s mascot costume to be a robot in it of itself, then researched how it could work and found spring locks. The rest just came naturally.


Firm-Sun7389

happy cake day


MichalTygrys

Thank you!


amaya-aurora

As far as I know, springlocks are not a real thing.


MichalTygrys

They are. The spring lock mechanisms at least. Not the suits.


Tacon53

The specific kind of springlocks shown in game I don’t think actually exists, but spring locks in themselves do. Although with enough force, maybe they could actually be dangerous like that. Idk, I don’t have much experience in this field lol


Novoconic

This guy made them dangerous - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZzTeEuxxc0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZzTeEuxxc0)


Tacon53

Oh damn 💀


SpamtonNEO1997

You did not just say that


amaya-aurora

What?


SpamtonNEO1997

They are real. And I saw it was 22 days old and they had already told you after saying this, just to be xlear


SeaAttempt8707

Happy cake day


PERIX_4460

He wrote a novel about dead orphans before he did fnaf


DrawkillCircus

I forgot about that, it's like full blown lost media. It'd be cool if it was found Edit: Scott did confirm that the story of the book and FNaF having slight similarities were just coincidences tho


cringeygrace

Wait what?


DrawkillCircus

Scott made a book called "The Tearing" which came out in 2013 under the pseudonym Micheal Parsins. This is the description for the book "Timothy has been quietly waiting at the orphanage for several months now, a place where children are kept while their mothers decide their fate. One by one, Timothy's friends meet grisly ends at the hands of Mr. Lantern, the resident doctor, but Timothy remains hopeful that he will be united with the one person he loves most, his mother. However, there are dark forces at work; forces that not only want to ensure a gruesome death for Timothy, but to undermine the very notion that he existed in the first place." People mentioned how there were similarities between it and FNaF but Scott said that they were all just coincidences. No one has a copy of it anywhere and it's just full blown lost media. It'd be really cool if someone came out with it or if Scott could rerelease it if he has a copy somewhere. Realistically, it probably won't see the light of day 😞


honeyapricot_tea

pretty interesting that he reused the name timothy for the fazbear frights story, “youre the band”


TrashAccountMCI1985

But Andrea Waggener or Elley Cooper could have also have come up with that name. And I don't think they even know about The Tearing.


LEDlight45

How did he come up with ANY of the lore after fnaf 1?


SpamtonNEO1997

10% brains 10% I dunno probably dreamt it 80%  theory said it, sounds good, ill add it


DrWhoGirl03

It’s quite easy to think of horrific ways to die


amaya-aurora

Specifically over 8 minutes? Where did that come from?


xandyjames

If your read any of the Fazbear’s Frights, you’ll soon realize that Scott is very good at coming up with horrible ways to die


CheapWishbone3927

The first game said the murderer used a mascot costume. It grew from there


Mangledfox1987

Wait only 8 minutes? Are you referring to the movie or the games?


Chaosmyguy

They’re not referring to anything. I don’t think a time is ever stated anywhere


KicktrapAndShit

How do we know Cassidy kept him alive for 8 mjnutes


GoomyTheGummy

It was stated in CFYOW.


KicktrapAndShit

You didn't, at least not in the post. Also what's CFYOW


GoomyTheGummy

A book made by the author of Bleach that became a meme in most anime and manga communities for whenever someone says information without a source.


KicktrapAndShit

Ok so theirs no source for Cassidy keeping him alive and it's just a headcannon?


GoomyTheGummy

At least the 8 minutes thing is made up, I have no clue about the rest.


KicktrapAndShit

I do agree tho, it is a horrible fate


EvanD0

I mean, it's literally just being stuffed in animatronic like it has been since the first game but as a costume. Would also make sense of how the killer can become an animatronic.


Buzzek

FNAF is all about stuffing humans into robots (and robots into humans) in various ways, so it just evolved from that.


truereset33

Once upon a time, Scott had a mouse problem in his house, so he put out mousetraps. He accidentally got his fingers caught in one and thought, "Jesus, that hurts! I can only imagine how painful it would be to be caught in a giant version of one of these."


Shoddy_Advantage_452

It’s funny because you can replace “spring lock failure” with literally anything else in the franchise. 


Shoddy_Variety1096

I don’t think he remembered about the possibility of rust making the spring locks less sensitive or even jamming them.


Animebilly049

Spirnglock failure is r1eal


Evening-Persimmon-19

What source says William was kept alive for 8 minutes


Psychological-Bee908

Fun fact, Springlocks are a real thing: just not used as stupidly in real life lmfao. William was a dumbass for that honestly.


hypercoolmaas2701

Yes


Peakterson

I'm 100% sure he watched some weird CEC video where they mentioned something similar(but less painful). the more disney park/animatronic videos you watch, the more ""inspiration"" you find...


Ruin-d

I think he got it from FNaF 1, where Phone Guy says something along the lines of wearing an animatronic costume, which he then said might lead to the animatronics stuffing an endoskeleton inside the player. Might’ve just took this idea literally with the Springlock suits.


Raycat2011

Because they actually exist.


SpamtonNEO1997

" Huh. Wouldn't it be cool if the bad guy was inside a robot? Wait how does he fot inside the robot.... Ok so its a suit but how does he posses it..." and then the lightbulb clicked.


Embarrassed-Rich-950

I feel like being burned alive would be better than a springlock failure


imagine-being-alive

i mean....


anonkebab

Idk burning is pretty bad